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まんま【飯】 : manma | define meaning
manma
Pronunciation: /maNma/ [mamːa]
Definition
Noun
- (Colloquial, babytalk) Cooked rice; meal; food
Etymology
Cognate with the standard Japanese form おまんま【お飯】 omanma "cooked rice; meal", also perceived as baby talk in the standard language. It is believed to have derived from a contraction of the reduplicated form of the adjective うまい umai "delicious, tasty" (Yonekawa, Akihiko. "World Around Us" Beyond Polite Japanese: A Dictionary of Japanese Slang and Colloquialisms. Japan: Kodansha International, 2001. 98. Print.).
Spelling
Orthography | Form |
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Kanji | 飯 |
Kana | まんま |
Romanization | manma |
Pronunciation (IPA) | /maNma/ [mamːa] |
意味:ごはん【ご飯・御飯】、しょくじ【食事】